Oral history interview with James L. Rogers, 1980 October 23.

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Oral history interview with James L. Rogers, 1980 October 23.

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Interview with James Rogers, a college professor, a former director of the North Texas State University News Service, and a former university administrator, concerning his recollections of the desegregation of North Texas State College from 1954 to 1956. Rogers dicsusses the admission of A. Tennyson Miller (1954), the Adkins case (1955-1956), the admission of Mrs. Irma E.L. Sephas (1956), the role of President J.C. Matthews in the desegregation of NTSC, the press and television coverage, community attitudes and response, student and faculty reactions, and Abner Haynes as the first African-American athlete at NTSC (1956).

45 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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North Texas State University. Oral History Collection.

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University of North Texas History Oral History Project.

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Rogers, James L. (James Lloyd), 1926-

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James Richard Rogers was born in Corning, Ark. in 1926 and enlisted in the Army in 1944. At the time of enlistment he was unmarried, had completed three years of high school and working as a sheet metal worker. Rogers joined Company E of the 85th Infantry Regiment of the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Swift, Tex. before being sent to Italy. He was wounded in action near Mount Torraccia in February 1945. From the description of James R. Rogers papers, 1944-2003. (Denver Public Library...

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University of North Texas.

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North Texas State College

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